[C320-list] Keel draft

[Gene Helfman]

The best coverage on this topic we've found is at

http://cruising.coastalboating.net/Seamanship/Anchoring/TripLines.html



In particular, we like:

“….retrieve a stuck anchor by shimmying a loop of chain down the anchor
rode to the crown of the anchor from a dinghy. Then one can use the dinghy
to free the anchor by pulling it up by the crown.”

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:52 AM, Doug Treff <doug at treff.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017, at 04:34 PM, Guy Smith wrote:
>
> > This is hard to do in the Chesapeake.Even with this
> > precaution, I have dove on the keel and found sunken logs and other scary
> > things that we didn't want to be anchored around.
>
> Guy - In Stoney Creek last summer, my brother pulled up a TREE with his
> anchor. No lie... He has a plow type anchor and it hooked the tree right
> on the V between two large branches. We tried lowering it and raising
> it, no dice. It would not let go. Fortunately he remembered that has a
> saw on boat and was able to cut it to free the anchor. Good thing he has
> a larger boat than mine with a powered windlass and full chain rode.
> Otherwise we would have never been able to pull it up to see what it
> was.
>
> If he didn't have that saw on board, I could just hear the call to
> BoatUS now for assistance...
>
> One never knows what lies on the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay.
>
> --
> Doug Treff
> doug at treff.us
>



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